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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1905
Page
1
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Hays reports to Secretary Wilson that a new acreage estimate for Southern cotton in 1905 is needed. The board finds Hyde and Holmes underreported, with the revised figure placing planted area at 26,999,000 acres, 4.731 million fewer than 1904.
List of names including Miss Mable Bank Miss Edith Kuborn and Walter Rose among others for the Huron Post Office weekly advertised letters. Cards for several individuals such as Peter Heil Portsmouth Candy Co and Union Consolidated Mining Co appear in the record.
Eld Johnson of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Allegheny, Pa, speaks at 8 pm at the English Lutheran Church corner 4th and Iowa streets. Topic is From Eden to Eden with a three fold gospel. Believers in the Ransom urged to attend with friends. Seats are free. no collection.
Reduced summer rates from Huron on Fridays and Saturdays 4.10 round trip return by Tuesday. Daily 6.60 round trip return within thirty days. Lake Shetek touted as a premier summer resort with abundant fishing and hunting. Nearby lakes listed include Current Lake Siegel Fremont Sarah Beare Long Buffalo Iron Beauty Willow Isabella and Clear.
A provocative editorial warns that people lacking sufficient blood quality and quantity fall victim to every disease. It frames blood as central to health and reflects a strong stance on societal vitality and medical resilience.
An advertisement extols Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills as boosting blood quality to feed tissues and organs restoring vigor and energy. Testimony from George Harkins of Wilmerding, Pa describes relief from weakness insomnia and poor appetite after using the pills. Sold at 50 cents a box by Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY and by pharmacist C H Longstaff in Huron South Dakota.
A pleasant surprise party may be given to your stomach and liver by taxing a medicine Dr Kings New Life Pills. They relieve headache dizziness and constipation and are advertised at 25c at Wheeler's drug store.
New York prices for cotton jumped after a government report showed a 14.9 percent drop in acreage from last year. October rose to 11.17 cents before a heavy selling wave dragged it down about 15 points to 11.2. The market was excited and irregular with gains of 12 to 14 points earlier.
In New Orleans on July 27 the cotton market moved about 15 points after the government acreage report was released. Bears turned bull for the remainder of trading as investors reevaluated supplies and prospects.
Postmaster General Cortelyou, in four months in office, issued 157 fraud orders, far exceeding prior years. The increase is credited to his new inspector system targeting fraudulent concerns nationwide and bringing them to justice.
The Bennington disaster inquiry led by Commander Young and Lieutenants Yates and Wade has concluded and a report is prepared for Washington. None of the officers will disclose contents, but it is believed only one boiler exploded and the blast damaged the steam pipes of other boilers.
Chicago Mayor Dunne appoints Captain John M Collins as police chief succeeding Francis O Neill who resigned recently. Collins rose from the ranks and was a frontline officer during the Haymarket bomb incident many years ago.
Stockholm July 27. Both houses of the riksdag held secret sessions to debate the special committee report on the crisis with Norway. The report is understood to have been approved in principle, though regret is voiced at the government resignation before riksdag action, seen as potentially hindering progress.
Two more deaths bring total to thirty six since July 13 with no new cases. City will report daily to the state board. outbreaks cluster around the French Market area with fourteen foci including Buckeye Louisiana and Algiers. Bad sanitary conditions and crowded Italian families fuel the fever’s spread.
Surgeon White reports daily from New Orleans that a house to house inspection is underway in the yellow fever infected portion of the city covering forty or fifty blocks. He notes general mosquito screening is promised and hopes for eradication while preventing spread to other areas.
Daily clashes between rival workmen and roughs in Nizhni Novgorod have left twelve dead and three fatally hurt over two nights. A bomb struck a Soromvo schoolhouse where soldiers were quartered, killing the bomber. Blood feud persists between socialist workers and the local stevedores brickmakers and cab drivers as factions raid each other’s territory.
In Paris on July 27 M Witte Professor de Martins and officials left St Lazare station for Cherbourg to sail to New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Ambassadors Nelidoff Cassini and financier Routkowsky joined the group at the depot as Witte paused on the platform to bid farewell in the rain.
Baron Komura, the Japanese peace envoy, is likely to visit President Roosevelt next Friday in New York. The envoy rests at his hotel and discusses his mission with delegation members as details remain to be arranged.
Minister Kogoro Takahira of Japan, envoy to the impending peace conference, spent part of the day with the president at Sagamore Hill. It was his second visit in two weeks, tied to the wider peace negotiation discussions.
Rear Admiral Ro jestvensky has undergone a successful medical procedure in Tokyo on July 27, with reports stating a positive post operative outlook and continued recovery in the naval hospital.
A patient with a forearm wound had a small piece removed and was opened for treatment. His condition is considered satisfactory after the procedure.
Negotiations on tariff relations between Russia and the United States proceed under improved prospects with Ambassador Meyer clearing initial obstacles. He discussed discriminating duties on American imports retaliatory measures with Minister Kokovtov and finance officials in Petrograd. Frequent conferences are planned as part of broader treaty discussions.
In Paris on July 27 the hearing of a divorce suit by Gonne known as the Irish Joan of Arc against Major McBride formerly of the Boer army opened in the Seine civil tribunal. Cruppe for the wife and Labori for the husband attacked Major McBride’s conduct and alleged unfaithfulness while contending the wife is not of genuine Irish birth.
Four men died in a freight wreck on the Central of Georgia road in Atlanta with yardmaster Fred Woodall among the injured. Three white workers and one Black man perished during the day and the yardmaster suffered fatal injuries.
Memphis authorities arrested D. C. Riser a South Main Street merchant I Detto a negro preacher and Jessie Harrison a negro during the day under sanitary orders. The men claim they referred to the fever in New Orleans.
The ninth annual outing of the Northwestern Editorial association closed in St Paul on July 27. The tour party traveled the new Winnipeg line of the Soo road. Members passed a resolution urging opening to settlement and opening the forest reserve on the old Chippewa Indian reservation.
Stillwater reports the death of David Tozer a prominent lumberman of the St. Croix valley aged eighty four He was born in New Brunswick and settled here in the fifties He leaves an estate valued at more than 1900000 He is survived by a widow two sons and two daughters.
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